[community] Designers and Visual Needs

[Foster, Julia]

Hi Shafagh,
Some organizations you might could contact are: 
CNIB
Balance for Blind Adults
Pacific Training Centre for the Blind
Canadian Council of the Blind
Alliance for the Equality of Blind Canadians
Canadian Federation of the Blind
VocalEye

Thanks and have a good day,
Julia
Julia Foster, MScOT, OT Reg. (Ont.)
Occupational Therapist
KHSC Vision Rehabilitation Clinic, in support of the 
South East Ontario Vision Rehabilitation Service (SOVRS)
Department of Ophthalmology
Kingston Health Sciences Centre-Hotel Dieu Site
166 Brock Street, Kingston, ON K7L 5G2
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Dear community,

I am Shafagh, a master's student in industrial design at the University of Illinois, USA. I am currently working on my masters' thesis, a toolkit for designers to work and co-create with adults with visual needs. I am looking for partners who are experiencing partial or total vision loss in their adulthood to help me gain a better understanding of this experience. This would be a learning journey for me when I would listen to your stories, experiences, and challenges you face in communication with the environment that can lead me to designing more inclusive products or services. I hope we can take this journey together because without your help I will not be able to do this.

I will need about one hour or less of your time for the first interview.
For the next step, I would like to have your daily journals in the format of audio records for 1- 3 days when you record your daily routines for about 3-5 minutes each day. You may talk about your challenges or experiences during a specific task or general tasks during a day.

The last part would be your feedback on 1 or 2 design concepts of this toolkit which I believe will happen in about one month to know what changes should be made to the toolkit to improve it and make it accessible. That could be a half an hour session which may happen once or twice.

Overall, I believe it may take about 3-4 hours of your time for the duration of 2 months if you intend to participate in all three stages. Your participation in any of these stages or all of them would be appreciated depending on your preference and availability.

I am looking forward to hearing from you and working with you soon.

Warmest regards,
Shafagh

Shafagh Hadinezhad
MFA Candidate, Industrial Design, School of Art & Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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